>  Absolutely not. It depends entirely on the compressibility of the data.
>  Typically database files compress well - people have reported SQL data
>  compressing well, and I would not think it unusual to have close to 1TB
>  of Oracle data on an LTO-2 tape (200GB native).
>
>  What is the limit? Who knows? What would happen if you had a huge file
>  containing nothing but zeroes?

So there is no such thing as tape skipping?  A %used=100 tape will
have at least 400GB of uncompressed data on it?

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